2. Funerary Inscription for Aemilius and his Wife Sabina

Description

Monument: sarcophagus; marble
Dimensions: 1.70 × 2.70 × 1.45
Text: on the front, engraved in tabula ansata; words divided syllabically
Letters: similar to the lettering of IGBulg III, 2, 1585 (180-185 AD) and probably by the same stone-cutter.
Date: 150-200 AD (lettering)
Found: Bogomilovo (formerly Teke) near Stara Zagora, but probably transferred there from Augusta Traiana
Now: Bogomilovo, re-used in a fountain
Text Category: private, funerary, verse

Publication

Bibliography: Georgius Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria Repertae, vol. III, 2, Serdicae, 1964, no. 1609.
Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Mihailov without any additional corrections.
Publisher: Text by Nikolay Sharankov, encoded for the Telamon Project by Dimitar Iliev.

Text

Translation

This grave belongs to both Sabina and Aemilius: the glorious man and the prudent spouse.

Този гроб е на двамина — на Сабина и Емилий: славният мъж и разсъдливата съпруга.

Apparatus

Interpunction mark after σῆμα.

Photographs

Image (2005)

Commentary

Σαβείνης with <EI> for long [i]. The text is an elegiac distich. Note the use of the conjunction τε and the poetical (Homeric) words κυδάλιμος, πινυτός, and ἄλοχος.
Sabina and Aemilius could have been settlers from Italy or the West.

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